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Musings on a year in the life of The Memory Pool
Introducing The Memory Pool: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming
From Kiama to Coogee and north to Bilgola: a photo essay on six ocean pools
Coogee swim sparks memories of mostly triumphant trophy days
From Herbert Badham to Matthew Martin: the fine art of drawing & painting pools
Handstands and kookaburras welcome a new season at Petersham Pool
Red and yellow and purple and blue: celebrating the cap swimmers at ocean pools

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Terrifying turnstiles, circa 1959, Liverpool Memor

Terrifying turnstiles, circa 1959, Liverpool Memorial Olympic Pool.

Posting a photo yesterday of school kids about to push through the turnstiles at the Michael Wenden Community Pool reminded me of how turnstiles were an important and sometimes scary part of the journey into the pool.

Interviewing Ellen Connor for The Memory Pool, she vividly recalled the turnstiles at Melbourne’s Fitzroy Baths:

‘I was about six or seven when I first went there and I always remember how those old turnstiles seemed massive in comparison to me, and I felt like they were going to beat me up.’

The turnstiles at Brisbane’s Sandgate Pool were also a strong memory for Trent Dalton:

‘We’d pile out of the car and run to this amazing place, the Sandgate swimming pool, which had these strange brown turnstiles with metal horizontal bars. You had to go through them one by one and that process of pushing through those turnstiles was going from one world to another. It was like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz going from black and white into colour - into technicolor.’

*The turnstiles in the photo are on show at the @liverpoolregionalmuseum

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#turnstiles #poolmemories #swimmingpools #thememorypool #theresespruhan #fitzroypool #sandgatepool #trentdalton #swimmingpoolstories #childhoodmemories #australianstories

School swimming 1984, Michael Wenden Community Poo

School swimming 1984, Michael Wenden Community Pool, Miller.

Photos by Ray Hely featuring students from Busby West Primary School on show at the @liverpoolregionalmuseum exhibition, An Engineer’s Eye, Liverpool 1971-1993, thousands of photographs and kilometres of film.

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#michaelwendenaquaticleisurecentre #michaelwendenaquaticcentre #michaelwenden #millerpool #westernsydney #swimmingpool #rayhely #liverpoolregionalmuseum #liverpoolsydney #swimminglessons #schoolswimming #busbywest #swimmingpoolstories #swimmingpoolhistory

The summer of 1974. Anyone want to guess the nam

The summer of 1974.

Anyone want to guess the name of the pool? Here’s a hint or two: it’s in western Sydney and is named after an Australian Olympic swimmer.

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#pool #poolside #beachtowels #westernsydney #summerfun #pooltime #swimmingpool #publicpool #1974 #circa1970s #chlorinepool #placesweswim

True colours are shining through in Liverpool at t

True colours are shining through in Liverpool at the water playground in Bigge Park and the magnificent mural by @claire_foxton

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#waterpark #waterplayground #biggestreetwaterpark #biggepark #liverpool #clairefoxton #liverpoolsydney #waterfun

Wonderful water world in the west! . . . #waterp

Wonderful water world in the west!

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#waterplay #waterplayground #waterplaypark #wonderfulwater #biggepark #biggeparkliverpool #biggeparkwaterplay #liverpoolsydney #westernsydney #waterfun #waterplay

Middle child lane! . . . #dailyswim #lapswimming

Middle child lane!

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#dailyswim #lapswimming #ianthorpeaquaticcentre #cityofsydneypools #swimminglife #swimming #swimmingpool #newgoggles #iloveswimming #swimmers #indoorpool #harryseidler #harryseidlerdesign #harryseidlerarchitect #lane2

One, two, three. . . . #austinmer #austinmerbeach

One, two, three.

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#austinmer #austinmerbeach #austinmeroceanpool #austinmeroceanpools #oceanpools #seapool #illawarra #illawarracoast #placesweswim #swimming #swimmers #swimmingpool

Double trouble: Austinmer’s twin ocean pools. .

Double trouble: Austinmer’s twin ocean pools.

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#austinmer #austinmerbeach #austinmeroceanpools #oceanpools #seapools #illawarracoast #illawarra #illawarraoceanpools #placesweswim

Awesome Austinmer! . . . #austinmer #austinmerbea

Awesome Austinmer!

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#austinmer #austinmerbeach #naturalpool #leapingin #jumpinginthewater #saltwater #summerfun #placesweswim #illawarra #illawarracoast

Afternoon delight! . . #thirroulpool #thirroul #i

Afternoon delight!

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#thirroulpool #thirroul #illawarra #illawarracoast #saltwaterpool #saltwater
#swimmingpool

Mellow yellow at McIver’s. . . . #mcivers #mciv

Mellow yellow at McIver’s.

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#mcivers #mciversbaths #mciversladiesbaths #coogeewomensbaths #coogeewomenspool #coogeeoceanpools #coogee #coogeecoastline #oceanpool #seapool #swimmingpool #placesweswim #placesweswimsydney #prettyplace #sydneyaustralia

Coogee colour scheme... #mcivers #mciversbaths #m

Coogee colour scheme...

#mcivers #mciversbaths #mciversladiesbaths #coogeewomensbaths #oceanpool #oceanpools #oceanpoolsofsydney #poolcolour #colourscheme #pool #swimmingpool #saltwater #sydneysandstone #placesweswim #coogee

Annual pilgrimage to McIver’s Ladies Baths with

Annual pilgrimage to McIver’s Ladies Baths with my pal Marg B, sadly this year missing our London-based friend Caroline, who would usually be joining us for a swim.

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#mcivers #mciversbaths #mciversladiesbaths #coogeepool #coogee #coogeecoastalwalk #coogeecoastline #oceanpool #seapool #swimmingwithfriends #saltwater #saltwatertherapy #summerswim #swimming #swimmingpool #sydneyswimmingspots #placesweswimsydney

Whoosh! . . . #whoosh #rossjonesmemorialpool #ro

Whoosh!

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#whoosh #rossjonesmemorialpool #rossjonesrockpool #rossjonespool #coogee #coogeebeach #coogeeoceanpools #summerfun #oceanpool #oceanpoolssydney #seapool #poolfun #swimmingpool

Pink skies at night and over Ross Jones Memorial P

Pink skies at night and over Ross Jones Memorial Pool, Coogee.

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#pinkskies #coogee #coogeebeach #rossjonesmemorialpool #rossjonespool #oceanpool #seapool #soloswimmer #placesweswimsydney #sunset

Love this book! It’s overflowing with beautiful

Love this book! It’s overflowing with
beautifully written and fascinating stories about swimmers and swimming with the author’s personal story rippling through the watery tales. I didn’t want it to end!

Thank you @bonnietsui8 for #whyweswim

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#whyweswim #bonnietsui #waterstories #thememorypool #booksaboutswimming #swimmingstories #goodbooks #goodreads #authorsofinstagram #theresespruhan #mahonpool #mahonpoolmaroubra #sydneyswimmingspots #placesweswim #placesweswimsydney #swimming #swimmers

Study in three, Mahon Pool. . . . #mahonpool #mah

Study in three, Mahon Pool.

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#mahonpool #mahonpoolmaroubra #maroubra #oceanpool #sydneyoceanpools #nswoceanpools #seapool #swimmingpool #swimmers #swimming #placesweswimsydney #sydneyswimmingspots

Immersed in the Ivo Rowe Rock Pool at South Coogee

Immersed in the Ivo Rowe Rock Pool at South Coogee.

#ivorowepool #ivorowerockpool #coogeeoceanpools #coogee #oceanpools #nswoceanpools #sydneyoceanpools #placesweswim #placesweswimsydney #plungepool #rockpools #tinypool #easternsuburbscoastalwalk

Final leap into the pool for 2020 with my top nine

Final leap into the pool for 2020 with my top nine posts:

1. Bondi Icebergs swimmers by @ginafishmanart - my birthday painting

2. Enfield Pool 1933 underwater tiles.

3. Ross Jones Memorial Pool, Coogee and my tribute to trailblazing Australian woman Susan Ryan.

4. Giles Baths Coogee swim post Xmas 2020.

5. Wagga Wagga City Baths opened 1953

6. Liverpool Memorial Pool diving towers.

7. Remembering my swimming-loving Mum.

8. Bronte Baths big seas.

9. Giles Baths gorgeous swim.

Thanks for all your likes and comments and best wishes for 2021. Hope it goes swimmingly compared to 2020! Therese 🏊‍♀️

#topnine #topnine2020 #swimmingpools #pools #swimmers #swimmersofinstagram #swimmingpoolhistory #gilesbaths #rossjonesmemorialpool #susanryan #bondiicebergs #brontebaths #brontepool #enfieldpool #waggawagga #justkeepswimming
#swimmingpoolstories #thememorypool

London Fields Lido meets Sydney’s Leichhardt Poo

London Fields Lido meets Sydney’s Leichhardt Pool.

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#eastlondonswimmers #madeleinewaller #londonfieldslido #eastlondon #xmasbook #xmaspresent #fromlondontosydney #lidos #londonlidos #leichhardtpool #poolstories #lidostories #leichhardtparkaquaticcentre #innerwest #innerwestsydney #swimmingbooks #swimmingpoolstories #
#theresespruhan #hoxtonminipress #booksaboutswimming

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